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Re:Ask HN: Working through SICP. Did you make it? by bcater on Thursday May 14, 2009 @11:55AM (#608974)
At the time that I took 6.001 (the MIT version of the SICP course), PLT Scheme lacked several libraries that the book requires. Since so many students wanted to use PLT, the staff put together the extra modules for us, but I'm not sure if PLT is now "SICP-compliant" or not. Check with someone who works on PLT (they're very nice) to find out.

For what it's worth, I really enjoyed SICP, though I still can't say that I understand every line in it.

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Re:Ask HN: Working through SICP. Did you make it? by magv on Thursday May 14, 2009 @01:36PM (#609219)
There is an effort[1] to create a SICP language inside PLT.

The docs say it's not yet ready for the masses, but the author was asking for feedback[2] some time ago, so I guess it's good enough to start working.

[1] http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-plt/

[2] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.scheme/browse_threa...

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